"A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare."

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Source : "The Palestinian poet who inspired JK Rowling's stance on Israel" by Claire Armitstead, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2015.

Mahmoud Darwish

#May Quotes #Occupation Quotes #Nightmare Quotes

“Why do most people think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?”
“I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.”
“All things are possible, only believe.”
“Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic?”
“I cannot kill him, she muttered to herself. I cannot kill him. I promised Bianka I'd stop at ten bodies a day, and I've already surpassed my quota for the fifth day in a row. I cannot kill him.”

Source : Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Secret”, p.150, HQN Books
“What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.”
“In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it's the fast fish which eats the slow fish,”
“Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself - even finding places that you've rarely been. And buried within the soil is song.”

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